UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Current

October 7, 2025
John Martinis & Michel Devoret
John Martinis & Michel Devoret

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, they were lauded for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “revealed quantum physics in action.”